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One Man's Opinion
Eighty years of living in the joy and strife of this wonderful world of ours.

I've got a few more years on you babe that's all.
It's not that I'm wiser it's just that I've spent more time with my back to the wall.
And I've got a couple more years on you babe that's all

Therefore, everyone is entitled to my own opinion
First off I realize that nothing applies as the ballplayers like to say 110% of the time,
so don't get the idea that I believe I'm 100% right about everything. But 98 to 99% ain't a bad guess.

Read on and Learn!
Non-sequitur: Logic - An inference or conclusion that does not follow from the evidence.
Something that sounds good until analyzed. Latin - It does not follow

Example 1: I was looking for a job when I found this one: I've heard this one used almost everywhere I've worked, to justify a beef a person has with their job and/or to show a who cares attitude of defiance. Sounds good until analyzed, they were looking for a job because they needed one and still do or they wouldn't still be working at all.

Example 2: Innocent until proven guilty: If you're arrested for whatever reason you will be throw in jail until you go before the Judge or are tried in a Court of Law. That's guilty until proven innocent not the other way around. Sounds good until analyzed.

Example 3: No fault insurance: Sounds good until analyzed. You actually insure the other driver and he insures you. It should be called everybody's at fault insurance. How about a true no fault law? What we should have is a law that says you drive at your own risk! If you drive and want insurance you insure yourself and the other driver insures himself. This won't happen. The lawyers wouldn't have anybody to sue and the insurance companies couldn't over charge us for state mandated insurance. We always pay extra for laws that are supposed to be passed for our protection and safety. Of course the high cost of insurance serves the purpose of giving us something to complain about while the lawyers and insurance companies are getting rich.

Example 4: Taken from Cincinnati Post 10/22/05 during the Maisonette auction: Bidders who stepped out on the terrace that overlooks the Westin Hotel lobby could see a construction crew demolishing Fountain Square just across fifth street. The demolition is part of a $42-million effort to ensure that institutions like the Maisonette don't abandon downtown in the future. Sounds good until analyzed. They could have bought the Masonette and kept it in business for a whole lot less than $42-million. Just how much of an effect Fountain Square had on the taste and cost of food at the Maisonette I'm not sure. Nor am I sure of how much of an effect the cost of parking along with other parking related problems, murder rate, high taxes, deadbeats etc. had on the number of customers the Maisonette was able to attract to downtown Cincinnati. But apparently Fountain Square was an even bigger problem than these were.

Learn to look for and reconize the non-sequiturs you will be bombarded with.
Don't accept something as true just because it sounds good.

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